When walking home alone late one night,you are startled by a moving shadow that you glimpse out of the corner of your eye.The _____ division of the autonomic nervous system mobilizes your body's defences.When you see that the shadow is just the neighbour's cat,the _____ division begins to lessen your physiological arousal.

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The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system responds to stress and mobilizes the body's defences, while the parasympathetic division helps to calm and regulate the body's functions. In this scenario, the startle response would activate the sympathetic division, but once the threat is perceived as non-threatening (just a cat), the parasympathetic division would work to lower physiological arousal.

When Walking Home Alone Late One Night,you Are Startled by a Moving